Sonos Beam HDMI ARC TV power

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I have Sonos Beam with Alexa enabled. The Sonos beam can turn my TV on/off via its HDMI ARC connection.

I have Hass.io running on my Pi with the Sonos component installed. I see no way to write a script to turn my TV on/off via the Sonos Beam. Any creative ideas? (The HDMI CEC component doesn’t work, btw)

Thanks guys!

(PS, but the Alexa app I can add a “TV off” line item to one of my routines that turns the TV On/Off via the Beam. So I know it’s possible to program this. Just want to do it at the Hassio scripting level)

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I’m guessing that no one got back to you on this? I’ve been trying for ages to get this to work without any luck.

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Try the same and haven’t found a way yet. Does nobody have an idea?

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I have same issue / question. Did anyone solve this?

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I need this :slight_smile:, afraid it won’t work though… Nobody found anything similar? Maybe we could reverse engineer that to work with Sonos?

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This is the key here; just need a little outside-the-box thinking to make everything play nice. I’ve used this same setup for other Alexa-controlled devices too.

In HA, set up a “dummy” switch entity and make sure it’s exposed to Alexa. Then, in your Alexa app, set up a routine such that “When switch.dummy_entity turns on; Power on TV” and vice versa for turning off.

Now, just turn that switch on and off through an automation or lovelace card and Alexa should control the TV accordingly.

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I’m just going to bump this as I’m in the same predicament. How is it that Alexa has access to send CEC command from an AMP but HA doesn’t.

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I’d like to work out how to do this too. Wake on Lan works for my LG TV but not my 2017 Samsung. I need a way to switch on the TV through HA and thought I might be able to do this through the HDMI-CEC connection from the Sonos Beam 2, no luck though. Any ideas welcome!